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After a stormy and almost raucous orchestral introduction, the clarinet makes a quiet, almost innocent entrance in the Concertino for Clarinet by C...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
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Cuban guitarist Manuel Barrueco has been playing guitar and making music for more than 40 years. His love affair with the guitar began almost inno...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
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Alan Hovhaness is an American composer of Armenian heritage with a fascination for the Far East. He's best known for his symphony, "Mysterious Mou...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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American composer David Diamond wrote in what can comfortably be called the "romantic" tradition. He enjoyed getting rich, full-bodied sounds from...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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How does one interpret music? How do performers and conductors decide how to shape and craft the music they play? Conductor Gerard Schwarz likes ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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How do performers and conductors choose the way they shape the music they play? It's different for each performer. Some look to history or academ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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On a few occasions, pianist Simone Dinnerstein gets herself into trouble on the concert stage. Nothing too serious, but the difficulty usually beg...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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It's not uncommon for performers to study the historical and theoretical aspects of the music they play. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein knows her hist...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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There are a few things you might want to know about Russian composer Alexander Glazunov: he was a child prodigy, and like Mozart, could compose an...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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One of Brahms best known orchestral works is his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn." Although it's best known in its orchestral version, Brahms firs...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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Carl Maria von Weber wrote quite a bit of solo music for the clarinet, and much of it is highly dramatic and virtuosic. Weber tended to think of i...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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"Who were your influences?" That's one of the questions artists and performers from all fields hate to be asked. It may have to do with how many ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
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There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Some concertos contain multiple technical and virtuosic challenges. Playing through them all can be an exhausting physical experience, similar to ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Very few things could be duller than a discussion about violin bows, unless you're a violinist. But a good bow does make a difference. Violinist ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2008
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For the Canadian Brass, their dream to play in Carnegie Hall came true in part because the players happily did something most musicians avoid, or d...
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
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There are 161 recordings of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 162 recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell has recorded both of t...
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
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To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
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Is there an "American sound" when it comes to classical music? Conductor JoAnn Falletta makes this case for Aaron Copland. Use this 25 second cli...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
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For some performers, making recordings is their bread and butter. Violinist Joshua Bell, on the other hand, is somewhat ambivalent about walking i...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
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How do performers create and craft the direction of their interpretation of the music they perform? Pianist Lang Lang brings an active imagination...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
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If you've ever seen the pianist Lang Lang play, you know he performs with great animation and enormous, physical gusto. Here's a little background...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
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Dutch violinist Janine Jansen comes from a musical family, and "family time" meant playing chamber music at home. She says working in that more in...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
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The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an all-Bach CD that includes the Partita Number 2. At the heart of the Partita is a slow and meditative move...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
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